A patient with gonadal dysgenesis and 46 chromosomes is described. In the inactive X chromosome there seems to be a deletion of the short arms and an insertion of heterochromatin in the long arms. The most probable mechanism to explain this structurally abnormal X is a pericentric inversion, with br
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Isodicentric X chromosome in a woman with characteristics of gonadal dysgenesis
✍ Scribed by Živana Laća; Marklena Ivanović; Vesna Dramušić; Slavka Morić-Petrović
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 331 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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✦ Synopsis
This paper presents a female patient with primary amenorrhea in whose karyotype an aberrant X chromosome was present. The chromosome resulted from the fusion of two X chromosomes at distal parts of the long arm and from the loss of the segment q24 leads to qter. The clinical and cytogenetic picture is compared with that of patients with the same aberration reported by other authors.
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